Wednesday, October 25, 2006

When my oldest was five I used our refrigerator magnets to showcase a Word of the Week. With the definition nearby on an index card the idea was to reward her for correctly using the word in a sentence. Provoke, jovial, morose, taciturn, agitate, we focused on adjectives expressing emotion or nouns and verbs that had easy synonyms that she already knew and I gave out M&Ms for correct usage.

Successful? You be the judge. When Grace came home from school and I asked how her day was she replied, "Not good Mommy. I am morose."